Alexandra Murray

You can fill out the survey on MS Forms until the end of May, which has lots of accessibility features: forms.office.com/e/7Kda0UzP6…

If you have any questions, you can also email me [email protected] Please share this with anyone else that you think might want to fill out this survey.

The findings from the survey will be submitted to the government consultation into changes to disability benefits. So much of the conversation around this has been about the costs, but not about how essential cash benefits are to disabled people and the impact on wellbeing.

I have made a short survey for people to complete if they receive Personal Independence Payment (PIP) or Adult Disability Payment (ADP). The survey asks what you spend it on and how it impacts on your work life, social life and how you feel about yourself and your life.

I am looking to gather peoples experiences of receiving disability benefits to examine the impact they can have on the wellbeing of disabled people.

Hello! My name is Alex and I am a disabled researcher working at Birkbeck. And I look at disability benefits as well as our courts and tribunal systems.

Now to rest a little and then get to work on sharing what I have done. Disability is mostly invisible and there is so much we can do to improve accessibility in all areas of life!

Also throughout I felt quite ill (as usual), that I was not doing enough/as much as everyone else, questioned if I could finish or if I even deserved to be doing a PhD. It is easy to only share the end result, but there's some furious peddling under the surface #phdchat #phdlife

When I first got sick, it never occurred to me that something good could come out of it- that it would lead me to doing a PhD like I always wanted. The @OpenUniversity @OU_Law @OUGradSch was such a wonderfully inclusive+supportive place #spoonie #InvisibleIllness #Disability

It was lovely to discuss my work with @ProfDPrabhat and @McKeeverGrainne- such wonderfully kind examiners who made me feel relaxed (as much as you can be!) and like my work was exciting. It was a genuinely lovely experience and not at all scary!😃 #phdlife

PhD finished! 🥳My brain turned mushy by the end of the week but thank you so much to @CarolineDerry @Matt_L_Howard @NeilGraffin for being such wonderful, supportive supervisors and @olga_jurasz for such kind viva chairing.